As I sat down to create a card I’m featuring in this post I struggled with the perfect color combination. And this is something I often find difficult when I create cards. I have a few go-to color combos that I use often and consider to be my favorite, but when I come across new colors I often become puzzled as I have no clue how to combine them to have beautiful color combinations on my cards.

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A few years ago when I stepped away from scrapbooking and started doing a lot more Clean & Simple cardmaking I created a Color Guide for myself to use; I still use it almost every time I make a card.

I believe I’ve mentioned it briefly in one of my videos a few years ago, but I wanted dedicate a separate post to it as I really find it to be a very helpful tool especially when it comes to stamping. So hopefully, if you are also struggling with selecting colors for your handmade cards you’ll also find this useful.

VIDEO TUTORIAL

I filmed a video tutorial where I talk about my Color Combo chart in detail, you can watch it below or on my Youtube channel:

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UPDATED TO ADD

I’ve had a few people ask me how to make collages with 4 color palettes (instead of one) to print. I made mine in Adobe Photoshop and printed from Photoshop. But there are a lot of free online apps that can be used to create similar collages. I’ve filmed a quick screen capture video to show you how you can make a collage in this app(I just googled “create collage online” and this was the first one I found, but there are many others out there). I hope this will be helpful to those of you struggling with printing several images onto one sheet.

COLOR COMBO CHART

It is actually very easy to make a color combo chart like I have here. Go to Pinterest and search for Color Palette. The search will return a huge amount of various beautiful images along with color combinations pulled from those images.

Its usually the image itself that I look at first, rather than the actual colors. If I find the image inspiring and if I think the colors shown there are colors I can see myself using on a card, I save the image onto a folder on my computer.

Once I have a decent amount of images saved I go ahead and print them. I use photo paper rather than regular printer paper to print these so that I get true vibrant colors and so that the paper is a little bit more durable. I use the cheapest matte photo paper available as I don’t think you need to spend a lot of money on high quality photo paper to print these, the cheapest option works for me.

I printed and trimmed mine to be 6×6 inches as this is a nice size for my desk. Usually anything bigger is a bit too overwhelming for me and takes too much room, so this size works for me. But you can print these in whatever size works best for you. You can also cut these up and put on a book ring so all images stay together or in a file storage system. I keep mine loose on a pile, this way I can easily and quickly flip thought my collection.

CARD DETAILS

For the card I’m sharing today I was inspired by Peach and Gray color combo. I don’t think I’ve ever used it before, so it was definitely a fun one to try. I added a hint of Rose Gold by using Rose Gold sequins from Pretty Pink Posh and I think that helped to warm the card a bit as otherwise it was rather cold.

GIVEAWAY

There are TWO mini MISTIs from My Sweet Petunia and THREE $30 gift certificates from Altenew up for grabs. Winners will be picked randomly from the comments across all of the blogs in the hop. Winners will be announced on the My Sweet Petunia and Altenew blogs on July 3, 2016.

BLOG HOP

If you arrived from Ilina Crouse – you are on the right track as I am the last stop on this hop. You can also start at the beginning at Altenew blog.

SUPPLIES

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I like the peach and grey color combo. The ink color sheets are amazing. I can see how the really helped you design a rich warm color scheme for your card. The Altenew stamp and die set along with your Misti definatley helped you to create a beautiful Wedding Card. Thank you for sharing

Yana, I really enjoy your videos, I often have problems with the color pallets as well. I never even thought of Pintrest to get that information so thank you for that. Absolutely loved your wedding card that you made for this blog.. Thank you so much. Hope you have a great week end. And a safe one.

What a great idea…I have my copic color chart, a color wheel, and several other charts, but really have never considered putting the color combinations on a specific chart. Thanks for sharing, I find that color selection really is challenging and time consuming. Thanks!

Not sure how I missed your videos on color palettes previously. So glad I got to see it. Good idea on assembly a chart of the color layering as well, since layering often results in a slightly different color than how the inks appear individually. Great inspiration as always.

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